The Confederation has purchased from a German company a new radar for its military airfields. But there is a problem : it confuses cows and enemy aircraft.

"Apparently it works in the plains but in the mountains, for example when a cow moves on the slopes, the radar identifies the animal as an enemy object," said the defense minister, Ueli Maurer, before the safety commission national.Armasuisse said the device would be operational at the earliest in 2020, when he should have initially taking office in 2016.

The first problems were identified in 2013. The supplier had then obtained additional time for delivery, but the first tests of a modified version in 2014 proved to be a failure. Maurer, however, says the project is on track and that it will not create additional costs. Germans use the same system also encounter difficulties.

I suspect the problem is enemy cows operating undercover, as seen in this war documentary :

Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...

Yes, but then enemy planes can avoid detection by disguising themselves as cows - a tactic known as Coming in Udder the Radar.

"You ain't gonna get off down the trail a mile or two, and go missing your wife or something, like our last cook done, are you?""My wife is in hell, where I sent her. She could make good biscuits, but her behavior was terrible."

"You ain't gonna get off down the trail a mile or two, and go missing your wife or something, like our last cook done, are you?""My wife is in hell, where I sent her. She could make good biscuits, but her behavior was terrible."